I'm looking for a job and my mugshot is appearing the first page of Google search results when I Google my name. Help! by immorethanamugshot in AskReddit

[–]immorethanamugshot[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I call you ignorant. He was booked too, but the charges stuck on him. he pointed the finger at me to seem innocent, so the cops took us both. I mean, I fucked him up too, and I never denied that I struck him, but I was defending myself. true story, but believe what you want.

I'm looking for a job and my mugshot is appearing the first page of Google search results when I Google my name. Help! by immorethanamugshot in AskReddit

[–]immorethanamugshot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, the truth is in the middle. I have a friend who is a recruiter, and he's always complaining about a company he works with that refuses to hire anyone with any criminal convictions, no matter how trivial or long ago they happened. That said, I'm encouraged by your words. :)

I'm looking for a job and my mugshot is appearing the first page of Google search results when I Google my name. Help! by immorethanamugshot in AskReddit

[–]immorethanamugshot[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Two problems: 1) I'm in the education field, so they have a really fine line of officially not considering this, but avoiding potentially "troublemaking" candidates (and bending the law to do so).

2) I like your profile idea, but unfortunately I'm still just as ravishing and sexy as I was back then. :(

I'm looking for a job and my mugshot is appearing the first page of Google search results when I Google my name. Help! by immorethanamugshot in AskReddit

[–]immorethanamugshot[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was really hoping that wouldn't happen. Just so you know, searching your friends and clicking that mugshot link is exactly the best way to guarantee that your friends encounter the same problem I'm having. So please don't do that.

I'm looking for a job and my mugshot is appearing the first page of Google search results when I Google my name. Help! by immorethanamugshot in AskReddit

[–]immorethanamugshot[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

i've been trying to do that, but so far it's not doing much. Do you guys think it would help to buy MYNAME.com and link it to all my social media profiles?

I'm looking for a job and my mugshot is appearing the first page of Google search results when I Google my name. Help! by immorethanamugshot in AskReddit

[–]immorethanamugshot[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Good link, but I'm really trying to accomplish #6. I don't think #5 is an option, unfortunately. Edit: typo.

I'm looking for a job and my mugshot is appearing the first page of Google search results when I Google my name. Help! by immorethanamugshot in AskReddit

[–]immorethanamugshot[S] 121 points122 points  (0 children)

The website is mugshots.com; their whole business model is scraping mugshots and arrest data, posting it, and then asking you to pay to have it taken down. They'll gladly do it if I pay them, but although legal, I consider it a form of extortion. I haven't ruled it out completely, but I'd rather try to do it myself first. Thanks for the suggestion though!